Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

Mark & Hilarie Moore and arts Patron Cecilia Dan have jointly donated a major 136 inch square work by acclaimed minimalist painter Mary Corse to The Ace Museum (Los Angeles) on behalf of and memory of arts patron Henry Segerstrom who passed away this year.

Ace Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating through the exhibition of contemporary art. Ace Museum researches and executes unique exhibitions addressing a full range of artistic media, as well as exhibiting high caliber traveling exhibitions that may not otherwise be shown in Los Angeles. Ace Museum is committed to providing Los Angeles with an alternative exhibition experience and dynamic programs focused on increasing the audience’s capacity to engage with significant and challenging works, while fostering relationships with partner institutions to expand local, national, and international contemporary art and culture.

Mary Corse, Untitled (Black Light Arch), 1986, Glass Microspheres In Acrylic On Canvas, 138 x 136 inches

The gallery is thrilled to announce the Honolulu Museum of Art‘s acquisition of Jeffry Mitchell‘s  works, “In the Garden”(2014), for it’s permanent collection.

Founded in 1927, the Honolulu Museum of Art is Hawai‘i’s largest private presenter of visual arts programs, with an internationally recognized collection of more than 50,000 works spanning 5,000 years. In addition to the visual arts, film and concert programs, lectures, art classes and workshops make the museum the state’s cultural hub.

Jeffry Mitchell was born in Seattle in 1958. He received his MFA in printmaking at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. For more than twenty-five years Mitchell has produced idiosyncratic sculptures, drawings, and prints. His oeuvre seamlessly combines high and low references that span religion, sex, nature, fine art, and folk and decorative arts traditions. Mitchell has been nominated for numerous national awards and was a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in 2009. Mitchell’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections including the Seattle Art Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), and the Portland Art Museum.

For more information about the artist or available work, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

Gallery artist Penelope Umbrico has a solo show opening at Bruce Silverstein Gallery on Thursday, January 7th.

For Silvery Light, Umbrico creates an installation of new photographic and video works related to her continued practice of utilizing the limitless archive of photographic images online. This new work investigates projective and reflective light in relation to the history of photography, digital imaging technologies, and the screen as light source.

Click here to learn more about the exhibition.

For more information about the artist or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

In advance of her upcoming show at the gallery, Broadly talked to Allison Schulnik about being a loner, the craft worker mentality, and the mess of having a body.

Read the interview here.

Schulnik’s show Hoof opens this Saturday at Mark Moore Gallery.

The gallery is thrilled to announce Cress Gallery of Art of University of Tennessee Chattonooga‘s acquisition of a body of work by Okay Mountain for their permanent collecion. The works, Meditations 1-9, (2015)  were part of Staycation, Okay Mountain’s recent exhibition at Mark Moore Gallery.

Established in the early 1950’s and now near 700+ individual works in number, the Permanent Collection of Art at Cress Gallery is comprised of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional work in all media. Included in the collection are a large body of original prints and works on paper by 20th century Modern European and American artists such as Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, Dieter Roth, John Piper, Tom Phillips, Patrick Caldwell, Piero Dorazio, etc. (gift of the Ackermann Foundation, 1980); a large body of photographs from the 1970’s and 80’s by famed photographer and former Chattanooga resident Rosalind Solomon (on extended loan from the artist); works by distinguished alumni such as Barry Moser, Robin Hood, and Jack Denton (gifts of the artists), artists with local and regional ties such as Lillian B. Feinstein, Leonard Baskin, Frank Baselitz, Lamar Dodd, and Edward Shorter (various sources); and art faculty past and present such as E. Alan White and George Cress (University Purchases).

Okay Mountain is a nine member artist collective based in Austin, Texas. Formed in 2006 as an artist-run alternative gallery space, the group has exhibited their drawing, video, sound, and performance projects throughout the United States and in Mexico City, and has been widely recognized for its “inventive construction, loving attention to detail and keen-eyed connoisseurship.” Okay Mountain repackages, reconstitutes, and rekindles our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge. Their installations and multi-media assemblage works mimic the stock vernacular of our communal materialism, yet tweak them just enough to reveal our superficial insecurities and convictions.

For more information about the artist or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

Gallery artist David Maisel has an upcoming solo show at Haines Gallery in San Francisco. The show features his latest body of work, The Fall.

For nearly three decades, Maisel has created rigorous, captivating aerial photographs of landscapes affected by industry, agriculture, urban sprawl, and other forms of human intervention. Despite the political and environmental underpinnings of these images, Maisel’s work refuses didactic interpretation, evoking instead an experience that the artist has called the “apocalyptic sublime.”

In the fall of 2013, Maisel was commissioned to photograph the city of Toledo, Spain, for ToledoContemporánea, an exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the painter El Greco. After completing the Toledo works, Maisel set to work on The Fall, depicting landscapes between Toledo and Madrid that have been impacted by industrial use, rapid development, and financial crisis.

The exhibition runs from January 7, 2016 — March 12, 2016
Opening reception with the artist:
Thursday, January 7, 2016, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Clic here for more information on The Fall.

For more information about the artist or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

The gallery is thrilled to announce the acquisition by UCR California Museum of Photography of Penelope Umbrico‘s “31_IMG_6414,”(2014) for their permanent collection.

UCR/California Museum of Photography, a facility of ARTSblock, provides a cultural presence, educational resource, community center and intellectual meeting ground for the university and the general public. The museum’s explorations of photographic media through exhibition, collection, publication, and the web examine the history of photography and showcase current practice in photography and related media. To serve an audience that is multicultural, young and old, general and specialized, the museum presents programs that recognize the variety and complexity of cultural experience and explore the relationship between traditional expression and contemporary practice. The museum is vitally concerned with the intersection of photography, new imaging media, and society. Located off campus in downtown Riverside, UCR/CMP is committed to bringing the most challenging art to the widest possible audience.

Penelope Umbrico offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. Umbrico works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”
She finds these moments in the pages of consumer product mail-order catalogs, travel and leisure brochures; and websites like Craigslist, EBay, and Flickr. Identifying image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—brings the farcical, surreal nature of consumerism to new light.

For more information about the artist or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

The gallery is pleased to announce the acquisition by Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (CT) of a major wok by Vernon Fisher, “Muddy Mickey,”( 1996) for their permanent collection.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art was founded in 1842 by Daniel Wadsworth, one of the first major American art patrons. The museum’s collections of nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years and feature the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned baroque and surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collection of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; the George A. Gay collection of prints; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art.

Vernon Fisher’s preoccupation with archive, information transmission, memory, and taxonomy stems from an early interest in how people make sense of the world. His hallmark blackboard paintings recall pedagogical lessons or speculative renderings, oftentimes replacing sequential logic with disordered notations analogous to excerpts from an unrepressed mindscape. Fisher’s work is often contextualized within a postmodern lineage, as expounded in Frances Colpitt’s essay for the monograph, Vernon Fisher, University of Texas Press, 2010, which was produced in tandem with Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism, the artist’s career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

For more information about the artist or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

Artist John Bauer has a new two-part interview in Better Luck Tomorrow. He is interviewed in conversation with Stephen W. Childs, the gallery director at Duke Gallery at Azusa Pacific University, where Bauer recently had a solo exhibition.

Read the first part of the interview here.

Read the second part of the interview here.

For more information about the artist or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

Gallery artist Julie Heffernan has written an article for Art Pulse Magazine titled, “Bonard’s Other Avant Garde.” The smartly written article highlights the work of Pierre Bonard and his influence on contemporary art, amongst other things.

Read the article here.